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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Design
The method of research applied is qualitative research method. The focus of qualitative research method is on the designation of meaning, description,
clarification, and placement of each of the data context and often described in the form of words rather than numbers. Qualitative research method based on the
paradigm of inductive methodological and data provision activities take place simultaneously with the data analysis activities. The steps of data analysis applied
in this method are 1 Conceptualization, categorization, and descriptions are developed on the basis of incidences that occur and 2 Theorization that showed
linkage relationships among categories is also developed on the basis of the data obtained Mahsun, 2012: 256-257.
1.2 Data and Sources of Data
The data of the study are the utterances in Oscar Wilde’s short story “The Nightingale and the Rose”. The source of the data is obtained from the internet,
and it consisted of 38 texts. Writer chose the short story “The Nightingale and the Rose” because this is the only short story by Oscar Wilde with the participants that
comprised of humans, animals and plants.
1.3 Data Collection Method
The method of the study writer used for collecting data is observation method. Observation method is a method of data collection that is used to collect
research data through observation and sensing Burgin, 2007: 115, while according to Mahsun, observation method is a method in provision of data used by
researchers by observing the use of language Mahsun, 2012: 242.
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1.4 Data Analysis Method
The method of analysing data is descriptive method. Descriptive method aims to explain the matters of the problem or a particular object in detail Suyanto,
2005: XIV. The steps of analysing data are:
1 Reading the text.
2 Identifying the field, tenor and mode of the text.
3 Analysing the field, tenor and mode by applying the theory of context of
situation by Halliday 1978.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING
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